Recent content by Calyb

Have no supernatural elements whatsoever. Please.

What I want to know is, what do you think inspires you the most when writing? For me, I am often inspired by experiences in life. For example, one of my aunts is a very strong woman, brave and resilient when facing life's challenges. But she also has an extreme phobia of spiders. Now a...

Admittedly, I was partially inspired by GoT by having multiple viewpoints, but I don't really have many cases of new POVs being isolated from the existing POVs for long periods of time. Ellie, for example, quickly meets Sam (S), and not long after the 'main cast', so it is dissimilar from GoT as...

Thanks to everyone for their advice! I've taken it all into account. In terms of distance, the estimates are a little under what I wanted, so I'll likely have to make slight changes in the duration of the journey and the geography of the world, but nothing major.

Ah, right. While my world is roughly on par technologically with medieval Britain I obviously do have some artistic license. I'll look into the typical ship designs of that era anyway. Thanks.

Yeah, I see what you mean. Luckily the setting is very different for Ellie (E) so there shouldn't be too much trouble in demonstrating the new viewpoint.

It's a pretty large boat; a merchant vessel. I would expect it to be loaded down, since there is high demand for goods and produce from this island. Considering its owner I guess it would be made of oak wood. The sea is pretty calm throughout the whole voyage. You have me stumped at prow though...

Do you think there is anything wrong in introducing new character viewpoints later in a novel? In my WiP the first eight chapters are almost exclusively from the POV of one character. After that, more characters are added. To (briefly) demonstrate: C, C, C/D, C, C/Fr, C, C, C/K, E, C, D, F/K...

Hi. I have a character who sets off in a medieval-style ship from her native land and reaches her destination in 8 days time. Assuming the voyage is smooth and straight, how far realistically could she have travelled? I honestly have no idea! :confused: Thanks in advance. :)